Deputy Campaign Manager Stephanie Cutter says Romney is trying to use two different sets of rules to evaluate his record in Massachusetts and President Obama’s record in the White House. Campaign asks supporters to “email this video to your grandparents.”

It’s tough trying to get a job these days with the economy and all. Why not make it that much harder on yourself by becoming virtually impossible for anyone to take you seriously in a work environment?

This analysis from the bipartisan firm Purple Strategies makes the case that Obama is on the Reagan trajectory going into reelection. With Obama making significant gains among independents, it’s certainly a plausible argument.

This chart tracks the four-week moving average of initial jobless claims, beginning in January of 2008. And while the economy isn’t booming, it’s a vivid illustration that the labor market has, on Obama’s watch, been healing.